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From: mdw@cs.cornell.edu (Matt Welsh)
Subject: Re: Usefulness of BSD/Linux Source Knowledge (was BSD vs. LINUX)
Message-ID: <1994Jul26.214343.24076@cs.cornell.edu>
Followup-To: alt.dev.null
Organization: Cornell CS Robotics and Vision Laboratory, Ithaca, NY 14850
References: <CtEuyA.En1@world.std.com> <1994Jul24.185248.5906@escape.widomaker.com> <313tkg$nhd@Mercury.mcs.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 21:43:43 GMT
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In article <313tkg$nhd@Mercury.mcs.com> dleeds@MCS.COM (Daniel Leeds) writes:
>: Because BSD is dead.  I wish it were not so because I prefer BSD but
>: SVR4.2 is the future of UNIX, not BSD.  You actually made a wrong 
>: choice by your own critieria.
>
>Funny, I am running BSD right now.  My machine is functioning and pretty 
>fucking good thank you.  As for development there is alot of BSD 
>development going on right now, just not from Berkeley's commercial entity.

Same here, but I'm running DOS 3.3 on my Apple II+. It's functioning
and pretty *darn* good, I'd say.

This whole Apple II is dead crap just doesn't add up.

M. Welsh, followups to alt.whine.my.os.is.better.than.yours